USB Drive sometimes changes the Drive name
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I have two USB Drives. I created partitions and formatted them to ext4.
Running
fdisk -l
shows that I have /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1
/dev/sdb1
Then I mounted both on boot by running sudo nano /etc/fstab
I use Samba to access them from the different computer and most of the time it is working fine, but sometime I can't access the files via samba and running fdisk -l
shows the the device for my drives changed to for example /dev/sdc1. Sometimes it changes only per one drive and sometimes it changes both.
I have no idea why this is happening. Any help is much appreciated.
Asked by Greg
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May 2, 2022, 07:35 AM
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